Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon
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There were online assessment with a few Basic Software Engineering question. Later there were onsite interview for 1 day. After a long waiting period, finally there were response from the HR.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2019
Interview
2 online coding challenges then video interview. Online challenges were debugging and logic puzzles, while video were 2 lc easy-med style questions. Prepare by going through Amazon's questions in leetcode, should be mostly those questions in interview. Best of luck!
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2019
Interview
I was approached by a Software Development Manager through LinkedIn. I submitted my updated resume by email, and he forwarded my profile to the HR hiring manager. I was given a 1 hour Coding Assessment (with 2 coding questions). The next-round was 1 hour Phone-Screen Interview. First few questions were behavioural ones, based on Amazon Leadership Principles. Then the interviewer moved on providing a technical coding question. I did provide a quadratic solution, but I had a tough time coming at a more optimized solution, which I feel impacted the overall performance.
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Question 1
Describe the most difficult project you have worked on, what were the quantitive results